Funeral Service for Retired Nurse DEACONESS NELIA DAMES, 92 a resident of Orchid Gardens & formerly of Nicholl’s Town, Andras, will be held at Evangelistic Centre Assemblies of God, Blue Hill Road & Vesey Street, on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 10:00 am. Officiating will be Pastor Cy Russell, assisted by Reverend Tyrone Sands & Pastor Emeritus Bishop Leslie Woodside Interment follows in Lakeview Memorial Gardens, John F. Kennedy Drive.
Nurse Nelia Dames is survived by her, daughter: Sandra Miller & Dillon Bethel Sr.; brother. Reginald Dames of Nicholl’s Town, Andros, 2 grandsons: Ramon Miller and Brad Miller (Vancouver, Canada); 2 great grandchildren: Braeden Miller and Brooke Miller (Vancouver, Canada); sister-in-law: Albertha Dames; granddaughter-in-law: Desiree Miller; nieces: Pastor Frances Woodside, Clarinda Williams, Lynda & Leslie Hoyte, Alva Knowles, Lillian McNeil, Ruthnell Dames, Carol Smith, Stephanie & Wenzel King, Joanne Demeritte, Beverley & Edgar Arnette, Sandra Williams, Nona Twiggs, Anna, Carly and Ann Dames, nephews: Bishop Leslie & Agnes Woodside, Wardley, Gregory, Tyrone, Whitney, Brian and Alaran & Melony Woodside Sr., Tommy Russell, Leonard Longley, Garth & Katrice Dames, Orthnell & Karen Dames, Daxon, Stanley, Wendall, Preston and Leonard Dames; Cousins including: Norma and Lesly Hutchinson, Clara Evans, Ivern Conyers, Naomi Brown; Theresa, Michael and Randy Smith, DLGE Irene & Phillip Rolle, Debbie & Ashwell Wilson, Glenda, Rosie, Tina and Margery Cooper, Melvina Ewing. Naomi Cumberbatch and Bergie Jones, Edwin Rolle, Neville, Laverne, Natalie and Stan Hutchenson, Clarinda Albury, Tony Wilson and Willard Cartwright; grand-nieces including: Leanne, Dianne and Anthia Knowles, Bernadette & Bill Pratt, Candice & Gregory Bullard, Alysso & Malvin Oliver, Carolyn Moore, Linda and Samantha Williams, Jenny & Howard Russell, Wanrea & Stephen Roxbury, Akia and Christal Woodside, Crystal Hoyte, and Tanika Styles; grand-nephews including: Joshua, Solomon, Jonathon and Shadrack Knowles, Tony Miller, Reservist 426 Jeriel Bain, DLG Dominic & Charessa Bain, Edwin Bain, Aaron, George, Michael and Steven Williams, Wardley Woodside Jr., Alaran Woodside Jr., and Leslie Hoyte Jr.: great-grand nieces including: Rebecca and Chanah Bain; great-grand nephew Dominic Angelo Bain and Jeriel Bain Jr., Atwon, Ammon and Amari Bullard.; god-children: Wayde Russell, Patrice Wilson and Rashae Woodside-Parker, other family & friends including: Inger Deal and family of Vancouver, Canada, Angela Andrews (England), Fritz & Debbie Bootle and family, Evelyn Babb and family, Sandra & Howard Hall, Lucille & Roger Toote, Catherine Frazer & Family, Dillion Jr. & Ingurea Bethel, Therman and Troy Bethel, Cheryl Darceuil, Princess Wilson, Theresa Kemp, Martha Evans, Marianne Nottage, Lorene Rolle, Nurse Janice Knowles and family. Annalee Woodside & family. Virginia Jarret and family, Dr. Eugene Gray & Staff, Nurses & Doctors at Chest Pain Unit and Patient Representatives Bain, Butler and Thompson, Reverend Tyrone & Vernetta Sands & True Worshipper’s Assembly Church family, Pastor Cy & Sis. Nichola Russell & Golden Gates Church of Christ family, Pastor Donald & Clara Dorsett & The 8th Street Coconut Grove Church of Christ family, Pastor Lisa Horton Strachan & the Cambridge Lane Church of Christ family, Assistant Pastor Elvie Woods and the families of the Instrumental Churches of Christ, including Icelyn Woods, Lori Rolle, Crystal Rolle, Garcie Braeden Miller and Brooke Miller (Vancouver, Canada); sister-in-law: Albertha Dames; granddaughter-in-law: Desiree Miller; nieces: Pastor Frances Woodside, Clarinda Williams, Lynda & Leslie Hoyte, Alva Knowles, Lillian McNeil, Ruthnell Dames, Carol Smith, Stephanie & Wenzel King, Joanne Demeritte, Beverley & Edgar Arnette, Sandra Williams, Nona Twiggs, Anna, Carly and Ann Dames, nephews: Bishop Leslie & Agnes Woodside, Wardley, Gregory, Tyrone, Whitney, Brian and Alaran & Melony Woodside Sr., Tommy Russell, Leonard Longley, Garth & Katrice Dames, Orthnell & Karen Dames, Daxon, Stanley, Wendall, Preston and Leonard Dames; Cousins including: Norma and Lesly Hutchinson, Clara Evans, Ivern Conyers, Naomi Brown; Theresa, Michael and Randy Smith, DLGE Irene & Phillip Rolle, Debbie & Ashwell Wilson, Glenda, Rosie, Tina and Margery Cooper, Melvina Ewing. Naomi Cumberbatch and Bergie Jones, Edwin Rolle, Neville, Laverne, Natalie and Stan Hutchenson, Clarinda Albury, Tony Wilson and Willard Cartwright; grand-nieces including: Leanne, Dianne and Anthia Knowles, Bernadette & Bill Pratt, Candice & Gregory Bullard, Alysso & Malvin Oliver, Carolyn Moore, Linda and Samantha Williams, Jenny & Howard Russell, Wanrea & Stephen Roxbury, Akia and Christal Woodside, Crystal Hoyte, and Tanika Styles; grand-nephews including: Joshua, Solomon, Jonathon and Shadrack Knowles, Tony Miller, Reservist 426 Jeriel Bain, DLG Dominic & Charessa Bain, Edwin Bain, Aaron, George, Michael and Steven Williams, Wardley Woodside Jr., Alaran Woodside Jr., and Leslie Hoyte Jr.: great-grand nieces including: Rebecca and Chanah Bain; great-grand nephew Dominic Angelo Bain and Jeriel Bain Jr., Atwon, Ammon and Amari Bullard.; god-children: Wayde Russell, Patrice Wilson and Rashae Woodside-Parker, other family & friends including: Inger Deal and family of Vancouver, Canada, Angela Andrews (England), Fritz & Debbie Bootle and family, Evelyn Babb and family, Sandra & Howard Hall, Lucille & Roger Toote, Catherine Frazer & Family, Dillion Jr. & Ingurea Bethel, Therman and Troy Bethel, Cheryl Darceuil, Princess Wilson, Theresa Kemp, Martha Evans, Marianne Nottage, Lorene Rolle, Nurse Janice Knowles and family. Annalee Woodside & family. Virginia Jarret and family, Dr. Eugene Gray & Staff, Nurses & Doctors at Chest Pain Unit and Patient Representatives Bain, Butler and Thompson, Reverend Tyrone & Vernetta Sands & True Worshipper’s Assembly Church family, Pastor Cy & Sis. Nichola Russell & Golden Gates Church of Christ family, Pastor Donald & Clara Dorsett & The 8th Street Coconut Grove Church of Christ family, Pastor Lisa Horton Strachan & the Cambridge Lane Church of Christ family, Assistant Pastor Elvie Woods and the families of the Instrumental Churches of Christ, including Icelyn Woods, Lori Rolle, Crystal Rolle, Garcie Butler, Nika Riley, Shan Gardiner and Marie Sumner, and the following families within the Nicholl’s Town community: Deann Christie and family. Pastor Vanda Rahming and family, Margery Russell and family, Brynd and Andy Munnings, The Woodside and Hutchinson families, the Evans, Scott, Cooper, Rolle, Wilson and Russell families, the Wallace, Bowleg, Curry, Davis, and Storr families, and the Smith, Pickstock, Woods and Murphy families and the rest of the Nicoll’s Town, North Andros Community.
Friends may pay their last respects at Demeritte’s Funeral Home, Market Street, from 10-6:00p.m. on Friday & on Saturday at the church from 9:00 am. until service time.
